On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Agreed. Perhaps I should say then that the syntax needs to express the > requirements of the planner/executor behaviour, rather than being the > main aspect of the feature, as some have suggested. Agreed. > Hopefully, notions of partitioning won't be directly tied to chunking of > data for parallel query access. Most queries access recent data and > hence only a single partition (or stripe), so partitioning and > parallelism and frequently exactly orthogonal. Yes, I think those things are unrelated. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance